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Is Trump Helping to Invite Terrorists Attacks?

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Daniel Benjamin about Trump's rhetoric in the wake of yesterday's tragedy in Orlando and whether or not it's helping to invite terrorists attacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.2

You retweeted an unflattering picture of her next to picture of your wife.

0:08.1

I didn't start it.

0:09.8

I didn't start it.

0:10.8

I'm sorry.

0:11.8

That's the argument of a five-year-old.

0:13.2

Any time he gets upset, any time he gets threatened, any time he gets scared.

0:16.5

He begins yelling, he begins often cursing.

0:27.3

Welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who says President Obama

0:31.5

might be complicit in Islamic terrorism.

0:34.4

That's right, Donald Trump.

0:36.1

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

0:37.9

You know, I don't even know what to say about Donald Trump's response to the horror in Orlando,

0:42.8

except that it's been a horror in its own right.

0:45.7

We usually have our friend John D. Namedico on to read Trump's latest tweets.

0:50.2

Today, we couldn't even bring ourselves to do that,

0:52.4

because there's just nothing funny about what Donald Trump's been saying on Twitter and elsewhere.

0:57.5

It's seriously disturbed.

1:00.2

One of Trump's very first responses to the news about the worst mass shooting in American history

1:05.5

was to say thanks, but he didn't need all the congratulations for being right again.

1:10.0

His next response was to repeat his obscene call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.

1:17.3

And then after that, he launched right into his conspiracy-mongering,

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